eyal rated Altered Carbon: 5 stars
Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
It's the twenty-fifth century, and advances in technology have redefined life itself. A person's consciousness can now be stored in …
It's deservingly a classic.
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eyal reviewed Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Review of 'Anna Karenina' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
eyal rated The Silmarillion: 4 stars
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
A number-one New York Times bestseller when it was originally published, The Silmarillion is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative …
eyal rated Love in the Time of Cholera: 4 stars
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
De jóvenes, Florentino Ariza y Fermina Daza se enamoran apasionadamente, pero Fermina eventualmente decide casarse con un médico rico y …
eyal rated The Hobbits of Tolkien: 4 stars
eyal rated Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: 5 stars
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
"The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called 'yourself.'"One of the most important and influential books of the …
eyal reviewed The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood (MaddAddam, #2)
The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact …
Review of 'The Year of the Flood' on 'Goodreads'
For the first half - for more than the first half - it was great, engrossing, fascinating, haunting. It was much better than [b:Oryx and Crake|46756|Oryx and Crake|Margaret Atwood|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327896599s/46756.jpg|3143431]. I was really into it.
And then, more than half way through, approaching the end, it just fell apart. Suddenly Atwood loaded coincidence upon coincidence, and started connecting various strands of the two books in unbelievable ways. I hated it, from that chapter on. I couldn't believe it degraded so rapidly and so completely.
Sigh.
eyal rated Cancer Ward: 4 stars
Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
'There has been no such analysis of the corrupting power of the police state in Soviet literature'--Stuart Hood in the …
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Everyman's library ;)
eyal rated The Elegance of the Hedgehog: 4 stars
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Elegance of the Hedgehog (French: L'Élégance du hérisson) is a novel by the French novelist and philosophy teacher Muriel …
eyal rated The Dispossessed: 4 stars
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Cycle, #6)
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down …
eyal rated A Storm of Swords: 5 stars
A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin, George R. R. Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
A Storm of Swords is the third of seven planned novels in A Song of Ice and Fire, a fantasy …
eyal rated Wizard's First Rule (Sword Of Truth): 1 star
Wizard's First Rule (Sword Of Truth) by Terry Goodkind (Sword of Truth (1))
In the aftermath of the brutal murder of his father, Richard Cypher encounters a mysterious woman, Kahlan Amnell, in his …
eyal reviewed Life of Pi by Yann Martel
After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the …
Review of 'LIFE OF PI' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
This is one of the few books that I heard a lot about before reading it, but ended up liking it even more than I expected.
eyal rated Elizabeth Costello: 4 stars
J. M. Coetzee: Elizabeth Costello (Spanish language, 2006, Debolsillo)
Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee (Biblioteca J.M. Coetzee)
Elizabeth Costello is a distinguished and aging Australian novelist whose life is revealed through a series of eight formal addresses. …